Cutting apparatus.



G. HANSEN.

CUTTING APPARATUS. I

Patented May 11, 1915.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 5, l9l4.

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GERGE HANSEN, 0F WINSTON, MONTANA.

CUTTING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1915.

Application led September 5, 1914. Serial No. 860,352.

T0 all whom t may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE HANSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at inston, in the county of Broadwater and State of Montana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cutting Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the cutting apparatus of mowing machines, and it has particular reference to the slide ,shoe that supports the outer end of the cutter bar.

rIhe object of the invention is to produce a slide shoe of simple and inexpensive construction which will be provided with guides for the purpose of deflecting the cut grass in an inward direction so as to prevent its entanglement with the standing grass,thus enabling a clean swath.

A further object of the invention is to simplify and improve the construction of the shoe and the manner of mounting the extension guides thereon.

With these and other ends in view which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and paticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing has been illustrated a simple and preferred formof the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the claims may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a plan view showing a portion of ay cutter bar equipped with the improved shoe. Fig. 2 is an end view, showing the shoe in elevation. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail view taken on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line H in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional detail view taken on the line 5 5 in Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a sectional detail view taken on the line 6 6 in Fig. 2. Figs. 7 and 8 are perspective detail views of the component parts of one of the improved guides.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference.

The vertical body portion 15 of the improved shoe is tapered in a forward direc,- tion and is provided with the customary upturned beak 16. The body portion 15 has i 21. The finger bar 20 is equipped with the guard ngers 22, said lingers being provided with teats 23 for the reception of which the underside of the nger bar is provided with recesses 24, as best seen in F ig. 4. When the guard fingers are secured by means of bolts 25 the interengaging teats and recesses will hold them in position with absolute security against lateralV displacement or against rockin on the bolt 25.

The flange 1 of the shoe is provided with slots 26 in the upper and rearward portions thereof, said slots serving for the passage of guide members D, the inner portions of which are secured on the body plate 15 by means of bolts 28. The portions of the guide members that project upwardly and rearwardly beyond the flange 17 are curvedy in the direction of the inner end of the cutting apparatus, so that the cut grass will be thereby deflected'away from the standing grass. Some of the guides D are composed of two adjustably connected members, namely, an inner member 29V having flanges 30 at the side edges thereof and an outer member 31 which is slidably supported betweenthe flanges 30, said extension member 31 being capableof being secured at various adjustments by means ofa fastening member, such'as a screw 32. The members 29 and 31 are correspondingly curved' so that the extension member 31 may be conveniently adjusted to various positions. Provision is thus made for operating conveniently on grass of various height.

The base yor body member 15 has been shown, see Fig. 2, as being provided on the outer face thereof with a vertical recess or socket 33. This provides for the use of a wheel supporting element when it shall be desirable to do so, but such wheel carrying element is not herein claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

1. A slide shoe for mowing machines comprising a body portion having an outwardly extending flange provided with slots, guide members extending through said slots and fixed on the outer face of the body portion,

some of said guide members being provided with longitudinal flanges at the side edges thereof, and extension members supported adjustably by said flanges. Y

5 2. In a guide shoe for mowing machines,

a bodyv portion having an outwardly eX- tending flange provided with a slot, a curved longitudinally flanged guide member eX- tending through said slot and secured on the l0 face of the body portion, an extension member guided adjustably between the flanges of said guide member, and means for securing such extension member at various adjustments.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature 15 in presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE HANSEN. W'itnesses:

SYLVESTER MANLEY, EMIL SUTOR.

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